The ensata NITRO Software Emulator was developed as a Debug Target for development of NITRO applications. (Nitro is the internal code name for Nintendo DS). On this emulator developers can test .nds roms for the new games that are in development.

The following is a summary of features:

Accurate rendering similar to the Nintendo DS system

Functionality as a debug target for CodeWarrior for NITRO *1

Functionality as a viewer for NITRO-Character *2

A debug print output console

*1 For details, see the documentation included with CodeWarrior for NITRO.
*2 For details, see the documentation included with NITRO-Character.